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PAINTED WORKS OF ART
(LOTS 4–13)

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SHIBATA ZESHIN 柴田是真 (1807–1891)
URUSHI-E (LACQUER PAINTING) OF FUKUROKUJU,
GOD OF GOOD FORTUNE AND LONGEVITY
福禄寿図額装漆絵
Meiji era (1868–1912), circa 1870–1890

Lacquer on paper, mounted as an album leaf and framed, depicting Exhibited:
Fukurokuju holding a rustic bamboo staff from which hangs a rolled-up Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Presenting the New Japan: Arts of the
scroll, two minogame (hairy-tailed tortoises symbolizing longevity) at its Meiji Era 1868-1912, February 2017–August 2018
base, in the background a bamboo forest in mist; signed Zeshin 是真
with seal Koma 古満 Exhibited and Published:
Nezu Bijutsukan (Nezu Museum) 2012, cat. no. 118
Overall: 40.4cm × 37.4cm (15⅞in × 14¾in)
Image: 19.7cm × 16.8cm (7¾in × 6⅝in) £5,000 - 8,000
JPY650,000 - 1,000,000
With cloth-bound storage box (2) US$6,100 - 9,700
Provenance: In her catalogue entry for the Nezu Museum exhibition held in 2012,
Misumi Hisashi Collection Tahira Namiko notes that Zeshin, who produced many figure paintings
三隅悠 旧蔵 using conventional ink and paper and loved to depict the popular
Sold in these Rooms, 5 November 2014, lot 10 deities of Edo/Tokyo (his native city), rarely painted figures in urushi-e.
Here the lacquer painting is embellished with an overlay of light colour,
the bamboo grove is bathed in a mist of gold dust, and the scroll
hanging from Fukurokuju’s staff is flecked with fragments of shell.
Although now framed, this lively painting most likely started life as an
album leaf.

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